Philip Westrich
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Persistent Systems, LLC
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Westrich is a Senior Cyber Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building low-level security solutions for mission-critical systems, currently at Persistent Systems after leading kernel security work at Raytheon Technologies. He specializes in operating systems, cryptography, and hardware-rooted defenses, owning projects end-to-end from design through integration. Comfortable in both research and product settings, he blends academic rigor from a master's in computer science with practical engineering—previously developing mobile apps, 3D visualizations, and proof-of-concept medical record tools at Tennessee Tech. Based in Huntsville, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset to hard security problems and often operates at the intersection of kernel internals and real-world deployment constraints.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Tennessee Technological UniversityMidway High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at College of Engineering at Tennessee Technological University
English
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Github Skills (43)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pwestrich/csc_4903_p1
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
pwestrich/csc_4750
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:81 pushes, 2 branches, 10 tags in 3 months
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